Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-22
SPRINGSTEEL.
NtIiarl CoMarln

'Iiari Cowarlr'
The objectionable epithets had been ap-
Dlied-unpardonable in any society, and
0nly to be atoned with blood in the wild
code Of the frontier.
Instantly the hand Of each disputant
0ew to his revolver, and the crowd before
the gambling house bar swayed back on
either side for what was deemed the in
evitable killing that must ensue.
The quarrel was between Luke Baldwin
and Grant Battersby, surnamed Spring
steel Grant, until recently ''pards" and
shums, now, through q moments differ
snce and those humiliating spithets on the
pa,t Of the former, apparently transformed
into enemies TO the death.
Baldwin was fair faced youth Of q or
8, frank, generous and impulsive BY
nature, though at present naddened by
Hquor and fancied indignity; his oppo-
nent and whilom mentor, . veteran from
tiersman, priced as a friend, dreaded - .
foe-cool card, iron will, dead shot.
luke was the cleverer in first whipping
out his revolver and bringing it to q muir
derous level-or was it that the other had
purposely delayed the customarily light
ming like and deadly movement on his
Own part!
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sneered. Lie down and take bleedr'
',Snap' the treacherous cartridge had
failed, the weapon missed IRE.
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steel blade in action.
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plied Mt the Alabama. as the hotel had
i,een ratbsr ironically desirnafed-with
or without intention-fell TO Thinking
hand.
How mas,ly he had nctea. how narrow
had been his escane from death and with
what unexpccted macnanimity Sprinp-
steel had behaved,
Should he not seek him ont at once M
at Spanish Peters pavilion, where he was
staying acknowledge the fault, and be-
seech his forgiyennessr'
No: he knew the man too well.
While true IN his friendships as the sig
nificance of his surname-as the unap-
.proachable spring steel of Damascus
blade-he was also, in enmities, as keen,
Is implacable. as deadly.
While Grant Battersby had never been
known to betray a pledge, neither had he
ever becn known to mass An insult unre-